Canadian teen shot to death after tracking down missing cell phone

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Canadian teen shot to death after tracking down missing cell phone

A Canadian teen was shot and killed Sunday morning after using a mobile-tracking app to find his cell phone, a June 16 article from CBC News reports. The app lead 18-year-old Brampton, Ontario native Jeremy Cook to a strip mall in London, Ontario, where he got into a confrontation with three men in a car.

After Cook asked the men about his cell phone, they tried to drive away, police say. Cook then held onto the driver-side door of the moving car and shots were fired. Now, Ontario police are on a manhunt for three black males between the ages of 18 and 21 who are believed to be involved in the shooting.

The car witnesses saw at the strip mall, a Mazda sedan, was found wrecked and abandoned near the crime scene. Police also recovered Cook’s phone and are reviewing surveillance footage from the mall’s parking lot.

In light of this case, Ontario police are trying to warn smartphone users about the dangers of tracking down their missing cell phones. While they say a mobile-tracking app can be a useful tool, users must practice common sense and caution when searching for their lost devices.

Cook’s desire to track down his cell stems from nearly unbreakable relationship with technology, analyst Sanjay Khanna told CBC. Not only are phones expensive to replace, but they can contain private personal data. Otherwise, they are generally the main way a person, especially an 18 year old, stays connected to the world at large.

http://www.examiner.com/article/canadian-teen-jeremy-cook-shot-to-death-after-tracking-down-missing-cell-phone

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This is horrible :(

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Quite sad.. though I think I would have let go of that.. Got the nearest computer.. and remotely wiped my phone of its goods.. Then reported it to the police and let them take care of it.. If not report it stolen and had insurance to replace the phone.. Or tracked it for awhile...after locking it down..

Likelyhood of recovering that in this manner is UNlikely.. Possibility of breaking into the phone through hacking.. 50/50.. Usually these would be stripped like a car.. SD Card and so on.. parted.. for tech... or recycled as clean unlocked and resold.. Cloud data would remain in place.. I am not to sure I would be too worried about it..

At 18 I would be furious and worried about loosing phone numbers and definitely would have been someone to try to get it back.. Killing someone over this is ridiculous.